Word: livelihoods
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...robbed of their capacity to marvel at superlatives, or to criticize them, last week visited an extraordinary exhibition in a Manhattan building modestly called "Corona Mundi" (crown of the world) on Riverside Drive. It was an exhibition of skyscrapers*- models, photographs and designs -assembled by an architect whose livelihood and reputation are in the building of skyscrapers, Alfred C. Bossom. When Manhattan should have gazed its fill, the exhibition was to go on tour...
...possible for a young man to choose politics as a career. He may go into the diplomatic service as it is now constituted in this country, or into the civil service somewhere as the result of passing an examination, but for the young man to expect to gain a livelihood by holding political office would seem to me to be very undesirable. I should say that he ought to have some business on which he could depend for a living, and as he has an aptitude for it take such part in politics as he finds he can do without...
Mechanically-minded son of an Indiana miller, he none the less, to gain livelihood, had learned the printing craft. As a printer he worked among the Dakota Black Hills, at Minneapolis, at Chicago. There he founded the periodical Dairy Produce, fought against spurious oleomargarine. (In 1902 Congress passed the bill he demanded, the oleomargarine be not colored artificially.) He wrote a textbook, The Dairyman's Manual...
...class that has opportunity for prolonged education--and the much larger class which has not that opportunity, is that the educated class lives mainly by the exercise of intellectual powers, and gets therefore a much greater enjoyment out of life than the much larger class that earns a livelihood chiefly by the exercise of bodily powers. You ought to obtain here, therefore, the trained capacity for mental labor, rapid, intense, and sustained. That is the great thing to get in college, long before the professional school is entered. Get it now. Get it in the years of college life...
...Tilden's most visible means of livelihood in recent months has been acting small parts in That Smith Boy and other plays...